I made you my temple, my mural, my sky Now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life Drawing hearts in the byline Always taking up too much space or time
Found this heartbreaking parallel on tiktok so enjoy
the way the ibytam video has taylor being chaotic and disruptive in all these different roles within the wedding - waitress, best man speech, flower girl - because it seems like he can't escape her as an annoying and petty ex, but then you find out the one role he really can't stop thinking about her in is the bride..... because she's not just the insane ex she's the one who got away and the one time he felt free....... poetic cinema
There’s a reason Rolling Stone named Red the fourth best album of the last decade: it tells the story of a young woman finding her footing as a young adult, feeling happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time. If last year’s folklore and evermore proved Swift to be one of the greatest living songwriters, Red (Taylor’s Version) only confirms that she’s always been that good.
- Phillip Garret - Vox Magazine - Red (Taylor’s Version)' review: Swift reimagines a modern masterpiece (x)
Anonymous asked:
but listen to me, actually this is NOT the way she would act at all, it’s the way he expects her to act in HIS mind, because she was never there and the wedding still didn’t even happen. it’s like he’s so obsessed with her and even thinks how she would react to his wedding, while she probably doesn’t even care anymore. also how he’s a narcissist and thinks she would be “so hysterical” losing her mind over him, while HE IS the one that is losing HIS mind.
YES BESTIE SO TRUE
TAYLOR SWIFT in I BET YOU THINK ABOUT ME (TAYLOR’S VERSION) dir. Blake Lively | 2021
Love is so short, forgetting is so long. I remember it all too well.
It is August. My life is going to change. I feel it.
i love that the phrase is “in love” like love is a place. like somewhere you could live.
I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice. In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independence, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralyzing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past. And this is all to say, that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.
Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something was healed along the way.
Sometimes you need to talk it over (over and over and over) for it to ever really be… over. Like your friend who calls you in the middle of the night going on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing. This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.
Red (Taylor’s Version) will be out November 19.